STANFORD BASEBALL RELEASE April 13, 2004 CONTACT: Kyle McRae (650) 725-2959 (ph); (650) 725-2957 (fax) [email protected] (email) gostanford.com (website) 2004 SCHEDULE/RESULTS 25-5, 2-1 PAC-10 •Cardinal sits in first-place after winning four of six conference road games 11-1 (H), 12-3 (A) No. 2 Stanford Returns Home To Host Santa Clara And California Date Day Opponent (TV) Result/Time JANUARY Santa Clara (16-19) at No. 2 Stanford (25-5) 30 Fri. No. 4 Cal State Fullerton W, 16-3 31 Sat. No. 4 Cal State Fullerton W, 8-7 FEBRUARY Tuesday, April 13, 6 pm – RHP Kellan McConnell (3-4, 4.80) vs. RHP Matt Leva (2-0, 3.86) 1 Sun. No. 4 Cal State Fullerton W, 4-1 6 Fri. at Fresno State L, 1-3 7 Sat. at Fresno State W, 13-4 8 Sun. at Fresno State W, 10-3 California (19-20, 6-6 Pac-10) at No. 2 Stanford (25-5, 4-2 Pac-10) 13 Fri. Kansas W, 7-1 14 Sat. Kansas W, 6-1 Friday, April 16, 6 pm – RHP Adam Gold (6-3, 3.28) vs. LHP Mark Romanczuk (6-1, 4.04) 15 Sun. Kansas W, 10-6 20 Fri. No. 6 Texas W, 7-4 Saturday, April 17, 1 pm – RHP Mike Padgett (3-4, 4.53) vs. TBA 21 Sat. No. 6 Texas L, 6-9 Sunday, April 18, 1 pm – TBA vs. TBA 22 Sun. No. 6 Texas W, 8-1 Media Coverage: All four Stanford Baseball games this week are scheduled to be broadcast on the 24 Tue. Rikkyo (Exhibition) W, 9-4 air at KZSU (90.1 FM) as well as online at gostanford.com ... Sean Bruich and Alex Gyr will be on the 27 Fri. at California W, 12-9 microphones for the Santa Clara games … Sam Stefanki and Mike Etchepare will handle the broadcasts 28 Sat. at California W, 10-3 29 Sun. at California W, 6-2 for the three-game series versus California … A Gametracker with live stats for all four games will also be MARCH available from a link at gostanford.com. 5 Fri. at USC W, 10-2 6 Sat. at USC W, 8-7 (13) QUICK TEAM NOTES 7 Sun. at USC L, 8-11 23 Tue. at Saint Mary's W, 7-3 Stanford sits atop the Pac-10 standings after posting a 4-2 record in its first six conference games on the 24 Wed. at Santa Clara W, 18-4 road, one-half game ahead of both Arizona and Washington (4-3 Pac-10) … Stanford is the No. 2 team in 26 Fri. Cal Poly W, 16-4 all four major college baseball national polls released on Monday, April 12 (Baseball America, Collegiate 27 Sat. Cal Poly W, 3-1 Baseball, NCBWA and Sports Weekly/ESPN) … Last week, Stanford had been the nation’s No. 1 team in 28 Sun. Cal Poly W, 10-3 the Baseball America (for the seventh consecutive week) and Collegiate Baseball polls, while ranking second 30 Tue. at San Jose State W, 5-0 in the NCBWA and Sports Weekly/ESPN polls ... The 2004 Cardinal is only the fourth team in school history APRIL to win at least 25 of its first 30 games, following the 1982 (26-3-1), 1967 (25-3-2) and 1998 (25-4-1) clubs 2 Fri. at UCLA* W, 11-4 3 Sat. at UCLA* W, 15-13 … The Cardinal has won all nine of its regular season series this year, as well as 13 in a row and 21 of its 4 Sun. at UCLA* L, 5-6 last 22 dating back to last season ... Stanford has swept four of its nine series this season and seven during 8 Thu. at Oregon State* W, 11-8 its current 13-series win streak ... ... Stanford will play 18 of its final 26 games at home beginning versus 9 Fri. at Oregon State* L, 4-5 Santa Clara this Tuesday after playing 18 of its first 30 on the road … Stanford has won 20 of its last 21 10 Sat. at Oregon State* W, 16-4 games at home, has an 11-1 record at Sunken Diamond this season, and has a 48-9 record in its last 57 13 Tue. Santa Clara 6 pm games overall ... Stanford has also won 28 of its last 32 true road games, finishing last year with a 14-game 16 Fri. California* 6 pm 17 Sat. California* 1 pm win streak in true road games and beginning this season with a 14-4 mark away from Sunken Diamond … 18 Sun. California* 1 pm Stanford has come from behind in 12 of its 25 wins this year and is 4-5 when either tied or trailing heading 20 Tue. Saint Mary's 6 pm into the ninth inning (2-1 tied, 2-4 trailing) … Stanford is 5-1 this season against ranked teams ... Stanford 23 Fri. Sacramento State 6 pm has been errorless in 12 of its first 30 games … Stanford has more than doubled its opponents scoring 24 Sat. at Sacramento State 1 pm (271-134) as 21 of its 25 wins have been by three or more runs ... Stanford is currently hitting a season-high 27 Tue. at Santa Clara 6 pm and Pac-10-leading .320, and averaging 9.0 runs per game after six straight double-digit hit games and 30 Fri. Washington State* 6 pm double-digit run games in four of its last six contests … In contrast, although the pitching staff still leads MAY 1 Sat. Washington State* 1 pm the Pac-10 with a 4.03 ERA, it is the highest its been since it stood at 5.00 after the first two games of the 2 Sun. Washington State* 1 pm season after struggling with a 7.12 ERA in its last five contests … The Cardinal is fielding at a .972 clip, 4 Tue. San Jose State 6 pm second in the Pac-10 … Stanford is looking to extend its school record string of consecutive appearances 7 Fri. at Washington* 6:30 pm at the College World Series to six, as well as its string of 40-win season to 10, while Stanford has won 50 8 Sat. at Washington* 1 pm or more games in three of the last four seasons ... Stanford has captured 11 Pac-10 titles in the last 21 9 Sun. at Washington* 1 pm years and finished either first or second in the conference 21 times in last 23 seasons. 11 Tue. Santa Clara 6 pm 15 Sat. at Arizona* 7 pm, MT 16 Sun. at Arizona* 7 pm, MT QUICK INDIVIDUAL NOTES 17 Mon. at Arizona* 1 pm, MT Brian Hall and Jeff Stimpson swept the Pac-10 Player and Pitcher of the Week honors when the awards for 18 Tue. San Francisco 6 pm the week ending April 11 were announced on Tuesday … National Player of the Year candidate Jed Lowrie 21 Fri. USC* 6 pm leads the Cardinal in nearly every offensive category runs scored (40), triples (4), homers (9, co-leader), 22 Sat. USC* 1 pm RBI (40), extra-base hits (19), total bases (83), slugging percentage (.741), bases on balls (26), on-base 23 Sun. USC* 1 pm percentage (.486) and sacrifice flies (5), while ranking second with a .375 batting average ... Jonny Ash 28 Fri. No. 14 Arizona State* 6 pm 29 Sat. No. 14 Arizona State* 1 pm leads the team in both batting average (.384) and hits (48) … John Mayberry, who has a current season- 30 Sun. No. 14 Arizona State* 1 pm high nine-game hit streak (3/27 – 4/10), co-leads the squad with nine homers, seven doubles and 15 JUNE multiple-hit games, while ranking second with 38 RBI and 17 extra-base hits, as well as third with a .369 4-6 F-Su NCAA Regionals• TBA batting average … Brian Hall has extended his current career-high hit streak and the longest by a Stanford 11-14 F-M NCAA Super Regionals+ TBA player this season to 15 games (3/5 – 4/10) as his average has risen 141 points during the streak from a 18-28 F-M at College World Series^ TBA season-low .208 to .353 … Hall leads the team with eight stolen bases, while contributing seven homers *Pac-10 Game; •NCAA Regionals; +NCAA Super Regional at Stanford, CA; ^College World Series at Omaha, NE; All and 31 RBI … Danny Putnam (.341) co-leads the team with seven doubles, while hitting seven homers Times Pacific Unless Noted;All Home Games In Bold At and driving in 26 runs … Donny Lucy (.327) is the team’s other regular hitting better than .300 … Sam Fuld Sunken Diamond; Rankings by Baseball America (.278, 1 HR, 18 RBI, 4 SB) is second all-time at Stanford in runs scored (242) and within three of passing all-time leader Mark Davis (244, 1983-86) … Fuld is also ranked among Stanford’s all-time leaders in hits (323, #3), at bats (948, #3), triples (16, #3T), doubles (58, #6T) and games played (230, #7T) … Mark Romanczuk leads the team with six wins … David O’Hagan also has a team-high four saves and the lowest ERA (2.60) among pitchers with at least one inning per team game played. Stanford Baseball (NCAA Champions - 1987, 1988) 1 STANFOR'D'S HISTORY VERSUS THIS WEEK'S OPPONENTS STANFORD LINE SCORES ALL-TIME SERIES 2004 VS. SANTA CLARA Stanford holds advantages in the all-time series versus both of its opponents this week.